winter 2015 newsletter

WINTER 2015

APPLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY | FRIENDS OF APPLETON PUBLIC LIBRARYFine Print

Appleton Public LibraryFriends of Appleton Public Library225 N Oneida StreetAppleton, WI 54911(920) 832-6177www.apl.org

January2015

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Hub of Learning and Literacy

Collaborative Environment

Children and Teens

Creation and Innovation

Engaged and Sustainable

Diversion and Leisure

Specialized Services

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Teen Night at APL

Thursday at the Movies

Children’s Winter Classes

Current Completed

Resolutions

Fox Cities Book FestivalApril 20-26, 2015

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Serving the community for over 110 years, Appleton Public Library currently operates from an 85,000 square foot facility at 225 N. Oneida Street. Established under state law by the City of Appleton, APL is governed by a nine-member citizen Board of Trustees.

APL houses and serves as resource library for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), a federated system of 16 member libraries.

Administration.........................(920) 832-6170Children’s Desk........................ (920) 832-6187Circulation Desk......................(920) 832-6179Information Desk..................... (920) 832-6177Reference Desk......................(920) 832-6173

Appleton Public Library Phone Numbers

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Appleton Public Library School Year Hours

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Staff Training....March 5 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pmEaster Sunday........................................April 5

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2014: PopularMaterials

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Princess PartyDVD

Light Me UpThe Pretty Reckless

The Very Best ofFleetwood MacFleetwood Mac

The Marshal Mathers LPEminem

The Bourne LegacyDVD

Dead Man DownDVD

Pain and GainDVD

The Big Come UpThe Black Keys

Now That’s What I Call MusicVarious Artists

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Fine Print is published quarterly by Appleton Public Library. Printingfor Fine Print is provided by theOutagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS).

Mail correspondence to:Appleton Public Library - Fine Print225 N Oneida StreetAppleton, WI 54911

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APL MissionLearn, know, gather, grow - yourcenter of community life.

APL VisionWhere potential is transformedinto reality.

Contact UsFor information about services,programs or materials pleasecall us at (920) 832-6177.

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Most Popular Materials of 2014

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s we look forward to another exciting year, we wanted to use this issue of Fine Print to give you our resolutions. While much of the public conversation in the past year has focused on the facility, the reality is that the foundation of all we do is rooted in our long range plan, APL 150. This plan, which was adopted in fall of 2013 describes our mission, vision and strategies that will guide us to our 150th anniversary.

Most planning processes are largely invisible to the public,but the APL 150 process was unusual in the amount of public participation and media coverage we enjoyed throughout. Most importantly, this plan doesn't sit on a shelf to collect dust or be checked in on periodically, it is a part of what we do every day and we hope that over time you recognize the APL 150 "hub and spoke" strategies.

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The Husband’s SecretLiane Moriarty

A Beautiful WeddingJamie McGuire

12 Years A SlaveSolomon Northup

The Ultimate Player’s Guide to MinecraftStephen J. O’Brien

KillerJonathan Kellerman

Night RoadKristin Hannah

One Bowl BakingYvonne Ruperti

Killing JesusBill O’Reilly

Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear UnderpantsMatthew Inman

Orphan TrainChristina Baker Kline

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Change is constant and we are confident that we will need to adapt to new challenges and opportunities, but the foundation of this plan is the same mission we have had for over 15 years, "learn, know, gather and grow - your center of community life". Our seven strategies work to define how we plan to accomplish this mission. In this edition, you will read about specific APL initiatives that address our strategies.

When we get to our 150th anniversary in 2047, if we are able to successfully carry out our mission and strategies, we will be able to say that we have achieved our vision, "where potential is transformed into reality". All services change and evolve; they must or they will likely become irrelevant. For us, our mission isn't changing, but how we accomplish it looks different than it did decades ago, and will continue to evolve as we respond to the demands for services that our community places on us. We are library experts but you are the experts in your hopes, dreams and priorities. We resolve to continue to ask you what you think, listen to your feedback, ask you to participate in developing services and bring you along for the journey of developing community-driven 21st century library service.

See our full plan at www.apl.org.

Friends of Appleton Public Library

BOOKSemi-annual

SALEFRIDAY & SATURDAY 9:00 am to 5:00 pmEarly Bird Sale for Friends - Thursday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

APRIL 9, 10 and 11

Proceeds support the Appleton Public LibraryBooks, Audio Books, DVDs - 1,000s of items!

www.apl.org/friends

Colleen RortvedtAPL Director

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We connect members of our community with opportunities for growth, self-instruction and inquiry. We recognize reading as the heart of the library’s mission and also expand beyond it to offer our community additional ways to improve and develop.



Engaged and Sustainable Organization

We celebrate our diverse community, serving as a place where understanding can grow. We work with many partners, allowing our entire community to benefit from shared knowledge and information.

We maintain a knowledgeable and creative staff that represents and aids our diverse community. We work closely with many organizations and partners to benefit those we serve.

We provide youth of all ages in our community with programs and services that are age-appropriate, dynamic and inspiring. We ensure that children from all backgrounds find a supportive place at the library for their futures.

We embrace the important role of entertainment in the lives of our community members and its ability to enhance and enrich our lives. We maintain a collection that covers the breadth of changing interests, technologies and formats.

We honor imagination, invention, and inspiration. We implement spaces, collections and programs to encourage discovery, development and originality.

We support and sustain learning for all ages. We address the varied needs within our community by offering targeted assistance for different populations.

The Future: Children and Teens



Specialized Services and Programs

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Friends of APL

ur 2015 resolution is to maximize the potential of our community’s public investment in the Appleton Public Library through our financial and advocacy support.

In 2015, “I Love My Library” promises to have more meaning than ever with the historic changes ahead. We pledge to continue to enhance our library to help provide the edge of excellence in a variety of ways:

• Friends’ grants fund cutting-edge technologies, provide program support, support special projects and a wide range of library materials. • Friends’ dedicated volunteers continue to donate their time and engage in strengthening the services and partnering with professional library staff. • Friends’ advocates know that strong public libraries are the hallmark of strong communities.

As our community continues to grow, Friends of APL knows that our needs are changing too. We support a 21st century library responsive to those changes. With the amazing groups of people working, volunteering and supporting APL, we look forward to a bright year ahead.

Friends ResolutionBy Jan QuinlanFriends of APL Executive Director

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E-Futuresare Bright

By Tasha SaeckerAssistant Director

he mission of the Public Services section states that Public Services is at the front line, providing excellent customer service by helping the community use our resources. In short – we help. Public Services staff work with patrons in house each and every day, answering questions and helping patrons find materials to checkout. We order books, movies, music and more for the library, we maintain the library card database and we do the little things behind the scenes to make your visit a successful one. Public Service staff are often the first and last people you see when visiting the library. We welcome you and ask you to visit again. We hope our 2015 New Year’s resolutions will show you how much we value your patronage.

We resolve to provide the best possible customer service experience.We will greet you with a smile and a hello. We will listen to your questions and lead you to the resource that best fits your need.We will work with you to resolve account problems in positive way for both you and the library. We will treat everyone equally, without bias or judgment. We will respect and protect your privacy and confidentiality.And we will listen.

We resolve to support your interests.We will help you entertain yourself, your family and your friends by selecting popular and high

interest books, movies, music and more.We will work with libraries throughout the state of Wisconsin to interloan material we do not have and you need. We will help you down-load e-books, e-magazines, streaming videos and more to your new smart phone, tablet device or computer. We will support and promote library programing for all ages.

We resolve to increase our efficiency while collaborating with our partners.We will work with the Outagamie Waupaca library system to implement a new library catalog with a discovery layer, allowing for greater access to our online resources. We will help you learn to use the new library catalog to your best advantage. We will work with system libraries to maintain accurate and timely library records. We will continue to look for new library technologies to save both us and you, time and money. And we will embrace change.

We resolve to help you.We will help you find the material you are looking for. We will help place holds. We will help you find your hold to pick up. We will help you checkout. We will help you with your library account. We will help you make a photocopy.We will help you with the computers. We will help you to the best of our ability, and if we cannot, we will find someone who can.

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Front-Line Commitments

By Paula WrightPublic Services Supervisor

ver the last year, we have added many new electronic resources for our community to access. This extends the library beyond the physical walls, allowing access to collections and resources from your home, as long as you have a library card.

Here are some of the highlights of the year and lots of places to explore when wintry weather may be keeping you at home:

OverDrive is our long-standing e-book platform that we partner with other libraries in the state to provide. While there is a very large state-wide collection, the holds lists for those items can be lengthy. This last year we invested in Advantage items, which means that they are available just for libraries in the OWLSNet system to access. The Advantage titles are shown with an orange symbol on the book covers when you are logged in to OverDrive. Enjoy these titles with shorter hold times!

Online magazines are quite popular with our patrons so we keep adding new titles as they become available. On our Zinio platform, you are able to read online magazines on your Internet-enabled device. New titles will be arriving with the new year so you will be able to enjoy even more digital magazine reading than before. Look forward to titles like Bon Appetit, Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired.

Also coming in the new year is The New York Times online. Our digital subscription will let you read The New York Times without any pesky pop-ups telling you that you are out of

articles for the day. Just make sure to set up an account and log in. You’ll be able to access the service from inside the library or at home.

We’re always looking for new services to offer our patrons online. We’ve been looking at new comic and graphic novel online offerings, different e-book platforms, as well as additional digital magazine platforms. The question of online music and video collections comes up often, and we are also looking at options to offer those as well.

So stay tuned! We will be adding to all of our digital collections in 2015. We continue to embrace the digital future while continuing to offer physical books too. We want you to have access to our collections and resources both in the library and out in your daily life.


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Make sure you check out all of our online offerings

at www.apl.org/e!

Public Services

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Children’s Services

hat does the Fox Cities medical community and public library have in common? Prior to this month, the answer was “not much”. That will be changing as a result of an innovative grant funded by the United Way Fox Cities to begin theimplementation of Reach Out and Read: Fox Cities. Regional implementation of ROR in the Fox Cities will help ensure children who enter kindergarten aredevelopmentally on track in the area of pre-literacy skills. ROR is an evidence-based non-profit organization of medical providers who promote pre-literacy and school readiness in the examining rooms of family practitioners and pediatricians nationwide by giving new books to children and advising parents about the importance of reading aloud. Physicians who participate in ROR promote the development of pre-literacy skills at ten well-child visits between the ages of six months to five years, making literacy promotion a standard of pediatric care. Physicians use books as tools within developmental screening to determine if children are being read to and are developing properly.

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Reach Out and ReadBy Tanya MisseltChildren’s Services Supervisor

ast year saw more teens attend library programs than any other library in Wisconsin. Our local teens were treated to a host of new programming options including popular culture exploration in the form of our K-Pop programing, gaming, computer coding and maker programs. Our teen summer reading program continues to be one of the busiest in the state setting a new record with almost 1,000 participants.

We resolve to continue to develop teen program that reflects the diversity of our community and its interests. Creating a safe place where our teen community can gather, collaborate and develop the skills they will need to become successful.

In 2014, we added a number of services to our digital lab area including a digital keyboard, 3D printer and 3D modeling tools. Our digital lab continues to grow in use with more than a 50 percent increase in use last year. Our community members have used the lab to edit photography, create music, edit movies and in one case develop an annual report for a local organization.

We resolve to provide creative tools and training for our community members to collaborate, create, innovate and inspire in a variety of formats.

Last year saw our usual diverse array of offerings in music, movies and live appearances. We hosted everything from string quartets to choirs; we were home to many author visits and a plethora of movies. New to the lineup in 2014 were movies in Houdini Plaza co-hosted by the Trout Museum of Art. These Seuss themed movies were a big hit. Look for them in 2015 with new themes and added partnering organizations.

Our team resolves to continue to provide sources of diversion and leisure to our community members in the form musical events, movies and access to local and regional writers.We will continue to develop our both our digital and print materials to ensure our community has access stories that expand our world and mirrors through stories that reflect our experiences.

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By Brian KopetskyCommunity Partnerships Supervisor


Dr. Dipesh NavsariaWisconsin’s leading advocate for Reach Out and Read is Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at theUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He practices pediatrics at Access Community Health Center. He is also the founder and director of the Pediatric Early Literacy Projects at the University of Wisconsin, and is also the founding medical director of ROR Wisconsin.

Perhaps it is Dr. Navsaria’s Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science that is the crux of the new regional relationship between physicians and librarians. He has become a popular speaker in Wisconsin among both pediatricians and librarians. His videos about the importance of reading and early childhood brain development can be found online.

Dr. Sarah CampbellLocally, it is Dr. Sarah Campbell, physician at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, who was the first to pilot ROR in Appleton. In a letter of support for expansion of ROR throughout the Fox Cities she wrote, “It is my hope, and was when we started this program a year ago, that this will become the standard of care for children in the Fox Cities. With this grant, I think that is an attainable goal. I look forward to continued collaboration with the Appleton Public Library, United Way and the various health systems to ensure that our children have access to this valuable program.”

Appleton Public Library and Friends of APLThe Friends of Appleton Public Library will act as the fiscal agent for this grant. The library’s primary function is to select and distribute books to medical sites in the Fox Cities who choose to participate in ROR. The position of Regional Coordinator for ROR will be funded by the United Way Fox Cities but will work out of the Appleton Public Library. The primary function of this position is to promote the spread of Reach Out and Read throughout the Fox Cities.

The Role of PartnersAll Fox Cities libraries will be invited to participate by promoting ROR, providing library program pamphlets for waiting rooms in participating clinics and collecting book donations at an annual book drive to create a literacy-rich environment in clinic waiting rooms.

Fox Cities pediatricians and family practitioners will be invited to participate in ROR as well. The process begins with an application to ROR Wisconsin, followed by physician training. The entire process can take up to a year.

An Execute and Advisory Committee will be formed to provide leadership from both the Fox Cities medical and library communities.

Collective LeadershipPerhaps the biggest challenge that we face moving forward is to bring forth collective leadership across collaborative organizations. There will be no singular heroic individual or organizational leader as we move forward. Our partnership must be the catalyst to guide systemic change at a scale that no one individual or organization could achieve. As partners, we must listen to each other to see this initiative through the lens of all of our organizations. We must give each other permission to ask questions, with a commitment to learning and growing together to create a new way of doing business. This grant has created an opportunity for us to use our collective intelligence to bring about change, and we resolve to do just that.

Community Partnerships

Thank You!

Thank you to all APL volunteers who gave their time and talents in 2014!

Maria AldanaShirley AndersonDakota AustinsonSahil BaherawalaShannon BarrowDolores BartaPeter BartmanSharon BartmanRoberta BawdenValerie BayerClarice BellingSandra BengsJill BerensKarla BergTerry BergenTerry BergmanJoelle BhullarPastor Willis BloedowRenee BoldtJoyce BongersMaria BorchardtMadeline BoulangerEmily BowlesLaura BraatzSeth BrauburgerBob BrennanJim BrownRebecca BuchmannChristine CalhounEliza CarmanBarb CarpenterNancy Lee CarterMargaret CaseyJake ChauklinJessica ChippeauxCharles Clark Jennifer CollegnonMary Jane CummingsAlexa CurtisMorgan DaleyMarsha DawsonTerry DawsonAnne DeanLinda DeMarco

Nicole DeMarioCarolyn DesrosiersCynthia DeWittJudy DixSunitha DoraiveluNoah DornLouise DreierJennifer EdmondsonBailey EggebrechtLisa ElliottMargaret ElrickMarisol EncarnacionKaden EndresRachael EtkaLucas FaresRandall FarnumMadeline FelauerSharon FenlonSiri FondrieBeverly FountainEllen FrostStephen FusfeldCatiel Galindo Ana GarciaCasey GarciaSherry GarciaJane GartonPatsy GavinRita GeeAnna GeurtsPeter GilbertSarah GilbertJeremy GlassRobert GoodwinPat GoslingAmanda GoznerLeah GregoryRaelene GuentherElise GugalaKarla HammondMadelyn HartjesRuth HavilandLaken HeinemeyerWilliam Heuring

Dawn HeyerdahlDon HietpasAutumn HillMadison HillColleen HolzHayden HolzLee HribalKristin HungerAdriana IzaguirreElizabeth JacobsonLauren JamronCarrie JandourekDustin JensenAustin JensenKexin JiangPatrick JohnsonDave JordahlJerri KahlAshley KainJudith KellerBarbara KellyWilliam KellyEmmalea KenevanJean KenevanShannon KenevanDoris KimballPaige KippingTricia KissingerCynthia KleuskensCheyenne KlitzkeKaren KlossAngie KnutsonEnise KocbekerDiana KoehlerShane KohlPolina KonovalovaPaul KowaldCole KrauseLogan KroesOrien KronbergJohn LarsonBryant LeeKalia LeeAngelica Levick

Marie LiddellDorothy LollNancy Long Sarah Long RadloffBrian LookerErica LovelandDominic MarshallEnedelia MartelChristine MayerFaith MaukSean McConnellMei Lin McKinneyPatricia McNinchRiley MentingChuck MerryBrenda MerryfieldRobert MetkoCarolyn MewhorterSara MichelettiClaire MihalkoBrenda MillerNick MisseltMary Jo MohrChristine MoranLucy MorrisKevin MuiOlivia NevinsMadeleine NoelHannah NortmanJudy O'ConnellKay OdegaardMike OgnacevicJacob OlsonSabrina PankratzLydia ParkerMichele ParkerNikki PastorelliSteeve PauleusAndrew PawelkiewiczSarah PennewellDevon PenneyDawn PetersenThomas PetersenJohn PetersonChloe PierceBrianne PlachKathy PlankSophie PlzakZoe PlzakClaire Polar

Howard PorterDeAnne PriddisMark PriddisDrake Quick-LaughlinMarjorie QuigleyJenna QuinnKaren RademacherJeff RademakerKamalambigai RajendranMary Katherine ReedEmma ReiserLisa RekoskeJane RhodeDana RichterTeresa RieckmannFatima RobertsonSharrie RobinsonAlejandro RodriguezEvan RosenauBarbara RucksRowan SaeckerSeth SalamoneJennifer SalmChristopher SandbergNancy ScheuermanVicki SchillemanRobert SchmallMaggie SchmidtLori SchmidtMary Kate SchneiderMeredith J. SchoenfeldRobin SchuettpelzAaron SchwoererDonna SeidlTania ShookCerise SiamofMarsha SnowTiffany SpaethLindsay SpiveyArthur SteinerMorgan SteinfeldtSheryl Stidham-GebertShirley StrangeSandra StutzAdeel SultanMary SwansonAlvina TanAndrea TatlockJorge TenorioTrevor Tetzlaff

David ThompsonAmna ToorQuanisa TurnerElizabeth Truesdale-WitekJudy TylerMeghan UberoiAmber UrichGina Van BerkelEmily Van HandelMia Van HoorewegheAshley Van LithMichael VandevenhovenApril VandeheiJaieah VangJenny VangElise Marie VanousSarah VenaccioDee VerkuilenJudy ViczianDeepak VirLindsey WaisanenHenry WeidertAnthony WendelRussell WestbyDanielle WhiteDebra WhiteTed WilcoxKatie WilliamsKristin WilsonJudith WinzenzDiane WiznerDarlene WoldtKa Bao XiongSoua XiongJackson YangTami YukelDanielle ZeamerLori ZimmerCrissy ZitkaMichaela Zuehlke


Dr. Dipesh NavsariaWisconsin’s leading advocate for Reach Out and Read is Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at theUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He practices pediatrics at Access Community Health Center. He is also the founder and director of the Pediatric Early Literacy Projects at the University of Wisconsin, and is also the founding medical director of ROR Wisconsin.

Perhaps it is Dr. Navsaria’s Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science that is the crux of the new regional relationship between physicians and librarians. He has become a popular speaker in Wisconsin among both pediatricians and librarians. His videos about the importance of reading and early childhood brain development can be found online.

Dr. Sarah CampbellLocally, it is Dr. Sarah Campbell, physician at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, who was the first to pilot ROR in Appleton. In a letter of support for expansion of ROR throughout the Fox Cities she wrote, “It is my hope, and was when we started this program a year ago, that this will become the standard of care for children in the Fox Cities. With this grant, I think that is an attainable goal. I look forward to continued collaboration with the Appleton Public Library, United Way and the various health systems to ensure that our children have access to this valuable program.”

Appleton Public Library and Friends of APLThe Friends of Appleton Public Library will act as the fiscal agent for this grant. The library’s primary function is to select and distribute books to medical sites in the Fox Cities who choose to participate in ROR. The position of Regional Coordinator for ROR will be funded by the United Way Fox Cities but will work out of the Appleton Public Library. The primary function of this position is to promote the spread of Reach Out and Read throughout the Fox Cities.

The Role of PartnersAll Fox Cities libraries will be invited to participate by promoting ROR, providing library program pamphlets for waiting rooms in participating clinics and collecting book donations at an annual book drive to create a literacy-rich environment in clinic waiting rooms.

Fox Cities pediatricians and family practitioners will be invited to participate in ROR as well. The process begins with an application to ROR Wisconsin, followed by physician training. The entire process can take up to a year.

An Execute and Advisory Committee will be formed to provide leadership from both the Fox Cities medical and library communities.

Collective LeadershipPerhaps the biggest challenge that we face moving forward is to bring forth collective leadership across collaborative organizations. There will be no singular heroic individual or organizational leader as we move forward. Our partnership must be the catalyst to guide systemic change at a scale that no one individual or organization could achieve. As partners, we must listen to each other to see this initiative through the lens of all of our organizations. We must give each other permission to ask questions, with a commitment to learning and growing together to create a new way of doing business. This grant has created an opportunity for us to use our collective intelligence to bring about change, and we resolve to do just that.

Community Partnerships


Children’s Services

hat does the Fox Cities medical community and public library have in common? Prior to this month, the answer was “not much”. That will be changing as a result of an innovative grant funded by the United Way Fox Cities to begin theimplementation of Reach Out and Read: Fox Cities. Regional implementation of ROR in the Fox Cities will help ensure children who enter kindergarten aredevelopmentally on track in the area of pre-literacy skills. ROR is an evidence-based non-profit organization of medical providers who promote pre-literacy and school readiness in the examining rooms of family practitioners and pediatricians nationwide by giving new books to children and advising parents about the importance of reading aloud. Physicians who participate in ROR promote the development of pre-literacy skills at ten well-child visits between the ages of six months to five years, making literacy promotion a standard of pediatric care. Physicians use books as tools within developmental screening to determine if children are being read to and are developing properly.

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Reach Out and ReadBy Tanya MisseltChildren’s Services Supervisor

ast year saw more teens attend library programs than any other library in Wisconsin. Our local teens were treated to a host of new programming options including popular culture exploration in the form of our K-Pop programing, gaming, computer coding and maker programs. Our teen summer reading program continues to be one of the busiest in the state setting a new record with almost 1,000 participants.

We resolve to continue to develop teen program that reflects the diversity of our community and its interests. Creating a safe place where our teen community can gather, collaborate and develop the skills they will need to become successful.

In 2014, we added a number of services to our digital lab area including a digital keyboard, 3D printer and 3D modeling tools. Our digital lab continues to grow in use with more than a 50 percent increase in use last year. Our community members have used the lab to edit photography, create music, edit movies and in one case develop an annual report for a local organization.

We resolve to provide creative tools and training for our community members to collaborate, create, innovate and inspire in a variety of formats.

Last year saw our usual diverse array of offerings in music, movies and live appearances. We hosted everything from string quartets to choirs; we were home to many author visits and a plethora of movies. New to the lineup in 2014 were movies in Houdini Plaza co-hosted by the Trout Museum of Art. These Seuss themed movies were a big hit. Look for them in 2015 with new themes and added partnering organizations.

Our team resolves to continue to provide sources of diversion and leisure to our community members in the form musical events, movies and access to local and regional writers.We will continue to develop our both our digital and print materials to ensure our community has access stories that expand our world and mirrors through stories that reflect our experiences.

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By Brian KopetskyCommunity Partnerships Supervisor

ver the last year, we have added many new electronic resources for our community to access. This extends the library beyond the physical walls, allowing access to collections and resources from your home, as long as you have a library card.

Here are some of the highlights of the year and lots of places to explore when wintry weather may be keeping you at home:

OverDrive is our long-standing e-book platform that we partner with other libraries in the state to provide. While there is a very large state-wide collection, the holds lists for those items can be lengthy. This last year we invested in Advantage items, which means that they are available just for libraries in the OWLSNet system to access. The Advantage titles are shown with an orange symbol on the book covers when you are logged in to OverDrive. Enjoy these titles with shorter hold times!

Online magazines are quite popular with our patrons so we keep adding new titles as they become available. On our Zinio platform, you are able to read online magazines on your Internet-enabled device. New titles will be arriving with the new year so you will be able to enjoy even more digital magazine reading than before. Look forward to titles like Bon Appetit, Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired.

Also coming in the new year is The New York Times online. Our digital subscription will let you read The New York Times without any pesky pop-ups telling you that you are out of

articles for the day. Just make sure to set up an account and log in. You’ll be able to access the service from inside the library or at home.

We’re always looking for new services to offer our patrons online. We’ve been looking at new comic and graphic novel online offerings, different e-book platforms, as well as additional digital magazine platforms. The question of online music and video collections comes up often, and we are also looking at options to offer those as well.

So stay tuned! We will be adding to all of our digital collections in 2015. We continue to embrace the digital future while continuing to offer physical books too. We want you to have access to our collections and resources both in the library and out in your daily life.


O

Make sure you check out all of our online offerings

at www.apl.org/e!

Public Services

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Technology Corner

E-Futuresare Bright

By Tasha SaeckerAssistant Director

he mission of the Public Services section states that Public Services is at the front line, providing excellent customer service by helping the community use our resources. In short – we help. Public Services staff work with patrons in house each and every day, answering questions and helping patrons find materials to checkout. We order books, movies, music and more for the library, we maintain the library card database and we do the little things behind the scenes to make your visit a successful one. Public Service staff are often the first and last people you see when visiting the library. We welcome you and ask you to visit again. We hope our 2015 New Year’s resolutions will show you how much we value your patronage.

We resolve to provide the best possible customer service experience.We will greet you with a smile and a hello. We will listen to your questions and lead you to the resource that best fits your need.We will work with you to resolve account problems in positive way for both you and the library. We will treat everyone equally, without bias or judgment. We will respect and protect your privacy and confidentiality.And we will listen.

We resolve to support your interests.We will help you entertain yourself, your family and your friends by selecting popular and high

interest books, movies, music and more.We will work with libraries throughout the state of Wisconsin to interloan material we do not have and you need. We will help you down-load e-books, e-magazines, streaming videos and more to your new smart phone, tablet device or computer. We will support and promote library programing for all ages.

We resolve to increase our efficiency while collaborating with our partners.We will work with the Outagamie Waupaca library system to implement a new library catalog with a discovery layer, allowing for greater access to our online resources. We will help you learn to use the new library catalog to your best advantage. We will work with system libraries to maintain accurate and timely library records. We will continue to look for new library technologies to save both us and you, time and money. And we will embrace change.

We resolve to help you.We will help you find the material you are looking for. We will help place holds. We will help you find your hold to pick up. We will help you checkout. We will help you with your library account. We will help you make a photocopy.We will help you with the computers. We will help you to the best of our ability, and if we cannot, we will find someone who can.

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Front-Line Commitments

By Paula WrightPublic Services Supervisor

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We connect members of our community with opportunities for growth, self-instruction and inquiry. We recognize reading as the heart of the library’s mission and also expand beyond it to offer our community additional ways to improve and develop.



Engaged and Sustainable Organization

We celebrate our diverse community, serving as a place where understanding can grow. We work with many partners, allowing our entire community to benefit from shared knowledge and information.

We maintain a knowledgeable and creative staff that represents and aids our diverse community. We work closely with many organizations and partners to benefit those we serve.

We provide youth of all ages in our community with programs and services that are age-appropriate, dynamic and inspiring. We ensure that children from all backgrounds find a supportive place at the library for their futures.

We embrace the important role of entertainment in the lives of our community members and its ability to enhance and enrich our lives. We maintain a collection that covers the breadth of changing interests, technologies and formats.

We honor imagination, invention, and inspiration. We implement spaces, collections and programs to encourage discovery, development and originality.

We support and sustain learning for all ages. We address the varied needs within our community by offering targeted assistance for different populations.

The Future: Children and Teens



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Friends of APL

ur 2015 resolution is to maximize the potential of our community’s public investment in the Appleton Public Library through our financial and advocacy support.

In 2015, “I Love My Library” promises to have more meaning than ever with the historic changes ahead. We pledge to continue to enhance our library to help provide the edge of excellence in a variety of ways:

• Friends’ grants fund cutting-edge technologies, provide program support, support special projects and a wide range of library materials. • Friends’ dedicated volunteers continue to donate their time and engage in strengthening the services and partnering with professional library staff. • Friends’ advocates know that strong public libraries are the hallmark of strong communities.

As our community continues to grow, Friends of APL knows that our needs are changing too. We support a 21st century library responsive to those changes. With the amazing groups of people working, volunteering and supporting APL, we look forward to a bright year ahead.

Friends ResolutionBy Jan QuinlanFriends of APL Executive Director

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Change is constant and we are confident that we will need to adapt to new challenges and opportunities, but the foundation of this plan is the same mission we have had for over 15 years, "learn, know, gather and grow - your center of community life". Our seven strategies work to define how we plan to accomplish this mission. In this edition, you will read about specific APL initiatives that address our strategies.

When we get to our 150th anniversary in 2047, if we are able to successfully carry out our mission and strategies, we will be able to say that we have achieved our vision, "where potential is transformed into reality". All services change and evolve; they must or they will likely become irrelevant. For us, our mission isn't changing, but how we accomplish it looks different than it did decades ago, and will continue to evolve as we respond to the demands for services that our community places on us. We are library experts but you are the experts in your hopes, dreams and priorities. We resolve to continue to ask you what you think, listen to your feedback, ask you to participate in developing services and bring you along for the journey of developing community-driven 21st century library service.

See our full plan at www.apl.org.

Friends of Appleton Public Library

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s we look forward to another exciting year, we wanted to use this issue of Fine Print to give you our resolutions. While much of the public conversation in the past year has focused on the facility, the reality is that the foundation of all we do is rooted in our long range plan, APL 150. This plan, which was adopted in fall of 2013 describes our mission, vision and strategies that will guide us to our 150th anniversary.

Most planning processes are largely invisible to the public,but the APL 150 process was unusual in the amount of public participation and media coverage we enjoyed throughout. Most importantly, this plan doesn't sit on a shelf to collect dust or be checked in on periodically, it is a part of what we do every day and we hope that over time you recognize the APL 150 "hub and spoke" strategies.

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APL houses and serves as resource library for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), a federated system of 16 member libraries.

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